Carolyn Engelhard worries that strapped individuals will decide the easier access to primary care is “good enough” and won’t investigate insurance options. “It can be a false security,” said Engelhard, who directs the health policy program at the UVA School of Medicine. “There’s sort of the illusion that it’s kind of like insurance.”
Critics say arbitration -- particularly when it includes a ban on class actions -- can strip litigants of important rights and make small claims all but impossible to press. The workers’ lawyer, UVA law professor Daniel Ortiz, told the justices that 25 million employees have signed arbitration accords that bar group claims.
“Moore’s edge over Strange grew from six points in the first round to nine in the second, so the actual votes suggest that Trump did not help Strange close the gap on Moore,” said Kyle Kondik, an analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics.
Kyle Kondick, a political analyst with UVA’s Center for Politics, said the idea that the wealthy are part of the political ruling class dates back to the American Revolution. The nation’s founders, he said, were typically wealthy.
Others have created standalone preservation plans, such as UVA’s Historic Preservation Framework Plan, which senior historic preservation planner Brian Hogg says is “regularly consulted as decisions are made” regarding alterations to the Jeffersonian campus.
Christine Mahoney, a UVA professor of public policy and politics, said the new cap is “uprecedented.” “If we’re going to be make America great again, we’d think we’d be as generous as the poorest countries in the Middle East,” she said.
University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock – who specializes in religious liberty – said that, from a legal perspective, the Islamic Center may have been better off forcing the county to make a decision on the plan for a new mosque. In Culpeper County, for instance, the Board of Supervisors initially denied a zoning permit for a mosque, but reversed that decision earlier this year to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit. “[If] the county says you cannot build a mosque, that’s plainly a burden on the exercise of religion,” Laycock explained.
Matthew Crawford, a senior fellow at UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, believes material literacy makes people feel more responsible and accountable for the world. People without material competence live “in channels directed from afar by vast impersonal forces that we don’t understand ... that's why tinkering is important.”
Earlier this year, a UVA professor began providing day-by-day tweets of slavery’s impact on Grounds. One of the first posts from the account, @slaveryuva, reads: “Nov. 1850: UVa pays James Lobban $36 for rental of enslaved man Ben, “bricklayer, 36 days,” at rate of $1 a day. #SlaveryUVA” Kirt von Daacke, an assistant dean of history and co-chairman of the President’s Commission on Slavery at the University, writes most of the tweets.
(By Kyle Kondick of UVA’s Center for Politics) The dominant theme in next year’s Senate elections is the confluence of two competing forces: The huge number of seats the Democrats are defending versus the usual boost that the non-presidential party, in this case the Democrats, enjoys in midterm elections.
Raymond Bulambula and Joyce Naliyabu are indigenous art fellows at the University of Virginia. Henry Skerritt, curator of UVA’s Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, said he is particularly excited about the residency, as most artists typically hail from urban centers, not barely inhabited, remote areas. The artists’ residency will culminate in the exhibition at the Australian Embassy.
UVA’s Darden School of Business plans to open new facilities in the Washington, D.C., area. The school will be housed on the top two floors of a 31-story building at 1100 Wilson Boulevard in Arlington’s Rosslyn area. Darden currently offers its executive MBA and executive education programs in the D.C. area.
Ahead of the University of Virginia's Bicentennial Launch Celebration, the school has released information regarding security for Friday.
Why are the elderly getting into protein shakes and powders? “Older Americans – they’re a population group that is losing muscle and yet they often don’t have much of an appetite,” says Carole Havrila, a dietitian and certified oncology specialist at the UVA Health System. “It’s easier for them to drink their calories and protein.”
A recent study from UVA’s Darden School of Business showed that there’s still something about Southwest’s presence that compels other airlines in the market to lower fares. “Virtually every market entered by Southwest experienced a significant reduction in average market fares,” wrote the study’s authors, Alan R. Beckenstein and Brian M. Campbell.
Daniel R. Ortiz, a UVA law professor who argued for the workers, took a different approach. “When an employer tries to coerce by making it a condition of continued employment that employees agree to a set of arbitral rules that make collective action impossible,” he said, that would be unlawful.
Deborah Parker, who teaches Italian at the University of Virginia, and Mark Parker, a literature professor at James Madison University, started working on their book, “Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy,” four years ago.
Anna Moriah Myers is solidly mid-career. As this school year begins, Myers is in limbo, wondering if she wants to remain in the classroom while juggling other part-time jobs to make ends meet or if she wants to pursue her doctorate so she can teach “an army” of future teachers who can help struggling readers. While in college at University of Virginia, Myers worked for the Dave Matthews Band, but even that environment didn’t pull her away from her desire to teach.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe has appointed Kathryn B. Reid of Charlottesville, associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Nursing, to the Commonwealth Council on Aging.
Americans’ economic worries may be bleeding into family life in toxic ways. People with insecure jobs often say they’re resigned to that insecurity, according to research by UVA sociologist Allison Pugh. But such people act differently from those in more secure financial situations, she found. They have higher—and more rigid—expectations of their partners, for example.